http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:12:42 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/06/090446.php#comment-260079 I thought the movie was quite good - I liked Orlando Bloom in this role - why should hero's always be portrayed as big imposing blokes with muscles & deep sonorous voices? This is a distortion of truth - many, many REAL hero's of war were not this stereotype, so well done Ridley Scott for casting Orlando as the hero. I found it easy to empathise with the character, for the fact that he was "ordinary". So what if the story is not strictly as history tells us? How many so called historical movies are accurate? Very Very Few. A movie is entertainment - this movie was entertaining and thought provoking. It was good. Not in the same class as Gladiator, or Lord of the Rings, but, they were the exceptional movies of our time. Gone with the Wind was the exceptional movie of it's time, but did any of the main actors & actresses ever have a character role to compare afterwards? Simply, No. 260079@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:12:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/06/090446.php#comment-259197 you obviously didn't get the movie, plotline, or the simple idea that a historical account can greatly differ from that of the chroniclers tale, as with the iliad, or the bayeux tapestry which is to be a historical account to begin with. i understand your concern, however, i wish you had payed better attention to the film. 259197@blogcritics.org Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:41:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/06/090446.php#comment-150353 Excellent review! 150353@blogcritics.org Mon, 9 May 2005 22:07:22 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/06/090446.php#comment-149159 Nice read. Thanks! I think Orlando Bloom needs to get back to being silent and enigmetic in films. He was wonderrful as Legolas, and so beautiful; but everytime he opens his mouth trying to play a role as a MAN, he comes off as a total light-weight. I haven't seen this one yet, but from what you say here... more of the same. 149159@blogcritics.org Fri, 6 May 2005 09:17:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/06/090446.php#comment-149132 Joshua, very well done review - thanks and welcome! 149132@blogcritics.org Fri, 6 May 2005 07:43:12 EDT